I am sure you have already heard about the AI Bubble we are in.\u00a0 The self-dealing between tech companies with nVidia at the center of it all.\u00a0 It’s clear that it is just a matter of time till it pops. Enough other people that are smarter about finance than me have already gone deep on just how much this is going to hit our economy as a whole.\u00a0 It will be bad, but that is not what I am here to discuss.<\/p>\n
What I want to discuss is what comes after the bubble pops from a technical standpoint and the impacts that will have on society as I see it.<\/p>\n
DOTCOM REDUX<\/p>\n
Think back to the DotCom boom and bust.\u00a0 While the AI Bubble is on a much larger scale, it will be quite similar.\u00a0 It will destroy hundreds of companies.\u00a0 A least one Trillion dollar company will probably collapse badly enough they will get acquired by someone who remains.\u00a0 But being honest, AI will survive.\u00a0 Just lot web marketplaces and search engines didn\u2019t die with the DotCom crash.<\/p>\n
Sure, AI likely won\u2019t be as free as it is today, but that won\u2019t matter to my next point.<\/p>\n
AI is destroying the internet.\u00a0 AI Bubble bursting will not stop this from happening.\u00a0 State actors and people with more money than sense will continue to utilize AI services or run their own instances of AI to produce endless streams of slop and continue to flood YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, every comment section, tons of fake new SEO\u2019d websites, everything.\u00a0 They will do this to make money, to manipulate the gullible, to brainwash youth who don\u2019t have pre-frontal cortexes strong enough to resist it yet.\u00a0 They won\u2019t care that they are losing $5 on every failed video they make, because they will have billions or trillions in tax dollars behind them to spend.<\/p>\n
And it will work.\u00a0 It will accomplish their goals, until it doesn\u2019t anymore.\u00a0 Even when the payoff plummets.\u00a0 Even as the new manipulatable users dry up.\u00a0 They will keep pumping the money in until the services themselves die or finally clean house.<\/p>\n
Some estimates have AI content generating over 70% of all new internet content already.\u00a0 I personally believe it’s closer to 90%.\u00a0 Within 2 years it will be nearly 100% of all new content.\u00a0 It will be all but impossible for actual human content creators to keep up with the output of AI even all humans collectively.\u00a0 Even if any of the big video or text platforms wanted to prevent AI Slop, the tools just don\u2019t exist yet.\u00a0 When they do eventually exist, it will be an arms race that will make cleaning up email spam look easy.<\/p>\n
But as it is, they are all happily embracing the AI Slop.\u00a0They will happily let it destroy services currently making them billions just to make the next few quarters look a bit better.\u00a0 Then, a couple years from now, they will wonder where all the real users have gone and why ad spend on their services is dropping off a cliff.<\/p>\n
THE UPSIDE<\/p>\n
Right now, AI created content is new and interesting.\u00a0 it is getting a lot of views, people are amazed what it can do, but as it takes over people are going to get bored.\u00a0 Sure, there is a ton of people who are believing all the fake video clips today, but people have already lost trust in the truthfulness of media and AI is only going to make that worse.\u00a0 Within a couple years, when almost all content on major platforms is purely AI generated, will people still be tuning in?\u00a0 Will they continue believe anything and everything they see anymore?<\/p>\n
I believe they won\u2019t.\u00a0 Sure, 20% of people will always buy into everything.\u00a0 It’s like the old X-Files poster, they want to believe.\u00a0 But already, at least in my small circle of life, people are giving up on everything from Google search results to anything YouTube \u201crecommends\u201d.\u00a0 The AI Slop is burning people out.<\/p>\n
My perspective is we are ripe for what I hope will be Web 4.0.\u00a0 The human web.\u00a0 A growth of sites like Nebula, Daily Kos, and other curated communities where people choose\u00a0to visit so they can appreciate content that is only from real human beings.\u00a0 More private communities form where people share interesting content directly with each other like we already see on services on Discord and Line (in Japan).\u00a0 These sites and services will pride themselves in blocking AI content.<\/p>\n
If we are truly lucky, as this eventual shift occurs to more trustworthy and strongly moderated human-driven content, we may also see a return to factual reporting and a destruction of some of the hateful and misinformation filled\u00a0bubbles people are currently sucked into.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s hope it’s not just the AI Bubble that pops. Let\u2019s hope it takes done most of the \u201cinfluencer\u201d culture of crypto scammers and all the grifters with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am sure you have already heard about the AI Bubble we are in.\u00a0 The self-dealing between tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-264472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}